At last a day off!!!

Woke up on monday morning and the weather gods had been kind to us! The sky was clear and blue so after Roger had dealt with the little outstanding issue with the shipyard we packed up our things with some basic lunch ingredients and set off for San Romolo. We parked in the middle of the village and were immediately approached by two small dogs (sort of cross labrador/beagle/springer/mutt) so we set off up the path to the summit of Big Non'e (i think thats how you spell it) at over 1599 metres we think this definately counts as mountineering!. The path up varied from nice chestnut wood to rocky vertical outcrop but the weather was still good enough to walk uphill wearing a t shirt. After about 2 and a half hours of pretty hard walking we reached the church on the top.....still accompanied by one of the dogs! Here we stopped for lunch with our four legged friend closely watching us!. (we did give him the leftovers!) Sadly at this point the cloud came in below us so we were unable to see back to San Remo but we set off back. This proved to be a much harder trek as the amount of chestnut leaves on the ground made it hard to see the stones underneath. We were all glad we had poles.
The dog followed us all the way back down to the car where he then met the people off the bus and proceeded to follow one of them! I can honestly say we were all knackered when we return to the boat.
But thoroughly refreshed so after a short break we decided to head into town for dinner as Lisa was allowed to have a day off from cooking too!!.

Today:
The day started well although we all still ached a bit. I set off early to catch the market and buy a few things to bring back with me. Then it was back to work filling and sanding and generally getting the boat ready for more windows. The kind man on the boat opposite gave us a bag of small scorpion fish (we lent him a hammer to break up crab a few days ago) so Lisa was forced to make soup for lunch. It was touch and go whether it was worth sorting out the meat on the fish but the soup tasted great. Then it was back to work for the afternoon. I am now just having a quick rest  before setting off for the weekly barbeque........

See you all soon.....